Knowledge Quotes

Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race.

Knowledge, whatever the form, could be as effective as a weapon.

There is a point at which we begin to receive a diminishing return on the accumulation of sacred knowledge unless we use it to at least try to improve the world.

Knowledge was like a mouthful of dust.

Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.

The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge.

Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful man can lead without wisdom.

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'

Knowledge relaxes me. Football is all about playing faster. You play faster when you know more.

If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists?

Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.

Constantly measuring ourselves against others sours and shortens our lives, robbing us of the very things we think it will bring: prosperity, love, inner peace, the knowledge that we’re good enough.

I know all that better than my own name.

Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place.

The mines of knowledge are often laid bare by the hazel-wand of chance.

I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

The fruits of the tree of Knowledge are various; he must be strong indeed who can digest all of them.

I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.

My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge.

Sorrow only increased with knowledge.

One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

The power of the past does not depend on our knowledge of it.

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

The most blessed gift that God can give any person is a knowledge of Himself.

Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

Since male and female incarnations are equally necessary for self-knowledge, it is not right to look upon one as being more important than the other.

Thank God I am not an intellectual! What a garbage of knowledge, what an unnecessary glossary of terms they have, those intellectuals!

God is unknown; anything we said about God has no validity, because our knowledge about Him is zero, absolutely nothing!

Sand can resist to water; but it cannot win. Ignorant can resist to knowledge; but it cannot win.

Strike the ignorants with the hammer of knowledge, wherever and whenever you see them!

There is a wealth of knowledge to be understood from others' work, don't get me wrong, and when I do stumble upon others' work, it's not lost on me.

The phrase "singular incredible life" seems to me that it applies more appropriately to Jane Goodall or David Attenborough, people I regard with awe and who stand for great humanism and knowledge.

I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!

The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.

We began to connect literacy and learning and the lively effects of biblical knowledge and preaching pretty early. That was a tremendous impact.

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

A curious mind armed with skill, experience, knowledge, and patterns can give birth to big brand revolution.

My hope is that if people have the knowledge, and if they actually see where their food comes from and have access to the information, they will make better ethical choices.

The first step towards solving the omnivore's dilemma is knowledge: eating with full consciousness. When that happens, I have a lot of confidence that people will make good choices.

Dee's search for knowledge was always his greatest strength... and his weakness.

Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?

In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it.

The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.

As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge.

Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke.

There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.

For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.